UTF date formatting

Manoj Raghuwanshi

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posted 9 years ago

Hi, I am trying to write data to a csv file. It contains a date string.

In the string buffer (cvsBuffer) it is showing the date string in the correct format that I am expecting (mm/dd/YY). But after writing to csv file it is coming in mm/dd/yyyy format. Is it happening due to utf-8 foramtting? If yes please help me how to avoid this date formatting.

Thanks Manoj

Jim Yingst

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posted 9 years ago

No, I don't think there's any way that UTF-8 would cause that. It seems more likely that there's some other mix-up. Have you looked at the CSV file yourself, or are you relying on some other program which reads the file and parses that field as a Date?

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Manoj Raghuwanshi

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posted 9 years ago

yes I saw the CSV file.

Ulf Dittmer

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posted 9 years ago

This is mysterious. You have ascertained that in the StringBuffer the date is in mm/dd, and after it's run through toString and getBytes, it is in dd/mm? You could check whether it's still correct after the toString operation.

Manoj Raghuwanshi

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posted 9 years ago

No, after toString its is mm/dd/yy but after getBytes(�utf-8�) it becomes mm/dd/yyyy. If it is 08/05/07 it becomes 08/05/2007

Manoj Raghuwanshi

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posted 9 years ago

No, after toString its is mm/dd/yy but after getBytes(�utf-8�) it becomes mm/dd/yyyy. If it is 08/05/07 it becomes 08/05/2007

Jim Yingst

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posted 9 years ago

Frankly, what you describe does not seem to be possible. I think there's likely been some mixup either before or after the getBytes() method call. To figure this out, I recommend putting some print statements as close as possible to the call, before and after: